Gil,
That would interesting if a 'DD SYSOUT' could do it, hmmm, I think the
issue I saw was related to an older PC code page, my guts keep telling
this. Guys, I appreciate what you said I want to dig a tad I know there are
Unicode APIs ...
Regards,
Scott
On Sunday, June 12, 2016, Paul Gilmartin <
0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 18:20:15 -0400, Scott Ford wrote:
> >
> >I have a bigger question, if we wanted to support Unicode (yeah ugh), how
> >do I know what CCSIDS to support ?
> >For example we go from EBCDIC on z/OS to ASCII and from ASCII to EBCDIC.
> Do
> >I some how have to tell the target what the sending CCSID is ?
> >
> Probably. IBM's FTP gives pretty much the maximal support with the
> [QUOTE] [LOC]SITE {SB|MB}DATACONN option.
>
> Possible silly restrictions (I'm not sure):
>
> o I don't know which CCSIDs are available. An Admin Guide may contain
> instructions for supplying more.
>
> o I don't know that UTF-8 (CP-1208) is supported.
>
> o IIRC, conversion between two ASCII or two EBCDIC pages is not supported;
> must be one of each.
>
> o IIRC, conversion is supported only for TYPE EBCDIC, not TYPE BINARY
> transfers.
>
> o Between two z/OS systems, I don't know what happens if one specifies
> conversion at both client and server. It might be possible to convert
> from
> one EBCDIC CP to ASCII at the server, then from ASCII to a different
> EBCDIC CP at the client.
>
> Topic drift (but well within the scope of the Subject): Is it possible
> from
> the SDSF API to determine the value coded on the JCL DD SYSOUT,CCSID=
> statement? This might sometimes be useful.
>
> -- gil
>
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